Suppose my opponent is able to teleport everywhere (an example). Also he has strong combat skills.
I can't beat him in face to face combat but i able to keep fighting for some time. Also i can force ...

In his upcoming movie, Captain America stops a helicopter from taking of, by grabbing the helicopters skid and a piece of railing.
Is this feasible, and how much strength would be required to ground ...

Please note: This is not a duplicate of my previous question, and in fact has a quite different premise.
Joe is just an average guy, aside from one passive superpower that Joe has had since he was a ...

One day, John obtains the gift of clairvoyance. Since he is a good guy, he'd like to use his gift to help humanity. And of course there are many good things he could do, like finding where missed or ...

The more I think of it, I don't think mutants would want to be identified as mutants but not all of them will be super heroes or super villains. In a modern western culture, what would the politically ...

In many movies we see super heroes creating walls of ice to block explosions and bullets. How realistic is this?
In the Incredibles Frozone shoots ice at a police officer just before he shoots a gun ...

I'm writing a novel, The Change Storms: Induction (I'm ~60,000 words in, and you can read it for free on my Patreon). The idea is to answer the question "what would the world look like if superpowers ...

I'm working on a setting in which all humans have been genetically modified to have access to telekinesis ages ago, and it is now considered a normal thing. It works somewhat like a muscle in that the ...

It's an old joke but how would it actually affect the food chain and our everyday lives?
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There are other threads about flying animals and characters but I haven't found one that deals with the ...

Some real world human traits are super in their own way, but have benefits that are subjective and come with caveats and disadvantages. These remind me in a way, that requires treading carefully to ...

I have a story set in a world similar to x-men where some people develop powers like x-men. However, it's not a superhero story, it takes place on a college campus and mainly focused on everyday life,...

I have a character in a fictional world where people develop special powers, very similar to x-men. I had the character doing so much while in college that it started to get questionable how he had ...

This is going to be a test run of hard-science, social science edition. This is in accordance with http://meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/2348/8914.
Okay, so a meteor is about to hit the earth,...

This main character was genetically created by an alien species.
This particular alien specie are highly intelligent and have numerous abilities such as telepathy, defensive powers similar to magic ...

Imagine the luckiest person on the planet. Everything that they do goes exactly their way without them asking it to happen. Wanting to check out at the supermarket? There's a cashier free. Approaching ...

Trying to create a hero with energy manipulating powers but I know nothing about energy and Captain Atom and Doctor Solar seem pretty accurate with showing versatility with using this sort of power. ...

Trying to create a hero with energy manipulating powers but I know nothing about energy and Captain Atom and Doctor Solar seem pretty accurate with showing versatility with using this sort of power.
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In Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (imdb) a single strand of Superman's hair is seen suspending a 1000lbs weight.
Is is possible to build a space elevator from strands of a super strong human-hair-...

Currently I am working on how to explain a character that can "phase" through objects in a similar manner to Martian ManHunter. His abilities are negated by certain (rare) metals. His ability could ...

Question: I need a power that fits the description below, and I also need to know how the individual described below could come by this power.
The Wielder: An individual (human, around 18 or so) has ...

You are an 18-year-old Clark Kent, and you have made the decision that to spend four years in college would be too big of a waste of time; you are ready to start saving the world now. Developing your ...

Our hero is a normal teenaged boy, living in north central California. Somehow he gains the ability to manipulate heat. My original plan for his origin was a "freak snowboarding accident involving a ...

Let us suppose that we have people who for all intents and purposes are human, except for one (not so) tiny modification: they are able to exert enough muscular force and react fast enough that they ...

After realizing how aliens and irradiation are not really suited for my world, I came up with a different idea for how Belgium could become a global power, one which I like more.
Basically, at birth, ...

I want to make a superhero that can control all forms of energy. From what I've heard you can do a lot like, manipulate time and space, open blackholes, teleport, shape shift, and manipulate matter. ...

My planet's features, such as mountains, plains, and rivers were formed because the Tolks, people with superhero-like qualities, used it as a battlefield. They have offensive and defensive abilities ...